Legality
4-HO-MET legal status by country
Also known as: metocin
Countries where the legal status of 4-HO-MET has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for 4-HO-MET in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and the paragraph 3 route that catches its neighbours does not reach it. This is a positive...
- ArgentinaControlled. Not named individually in Anexo I, but within Anexo II, chemical group 17, Triptaminas of Decreto...
- AustraliaControlled federally as a drug analogue of a listed drug; its border status is conditional and the Poisons...
- AustriaControlled in Austria under the new psychoactive substances regime, and not as a narcotic or a psychotrope....
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainNot a controlled drug on the text read. 4-HO-MET is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- Belarus4-HO-MET is controlled in Belarus. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11...
- Belgium4-HO-MET is controlled in Belgium, but not by being named. It is reached by the generic tryptamine definition...
- British Virgin Islands (UK)Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 4-HO-MET,...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaControlled. 4-HO-MET is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículo 1, the lista of substances capable of grave toxic effects or considerable...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 4-HO-MET, metocina or...
- CroatiaControlled in Croatia through a bounded entry rather than under its own name. 4-HO-MET is not named in the...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- Czechia4-HO-MET is a psychotropní látka, a psychotropic substance, in Czechia. Nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o...
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation through the tryptamine group entry rather than under its...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. The listed tryptamines are «Dimetiltriptamina» at number 10 under code 7435, «Dietiltriptamina»...
- Estonia4-HO-MET is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs...
- Falkland Islands (UK)Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, falls within...
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)Controlled in the Faroe Islands through a group entry rather than under its own name. 4-HO-MET is reached by...
- FinlandControlled, though not as a narcotic. Section 1 of valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä...
- France4-HO-MET is classified as a narcotic in France. The consolidated order of 22 February 1990 fixing the list of...
- Germany4-HO-MET is prohibited in Germany as a member of the indole-3-alkylamine group, placed at Anlage 1 Nr. 5.1 of...
- Ghana4-HO-MET is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not named...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. 4-HO-MET is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. 4-HO-MET, searched also as...
- Hong KongA dangerous drug in Hong Kong. It is not named in Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs...
- HungaryControlled. 4-HO-MET is not itself an entry. It is not named in the K1 or K2 jegyzék, in the P1 to P4...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "4-HO-MET", with "Metocin, Methylsybin,...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- Iran4-HO-MET has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the Anti-Narcotics...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. The nearest entry read is Schedule Five serial 18, psilocin, described as...
- Ireland4-HO-MET is a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: Schedule 1; S.I. 210/2022,...
- ItalyControlled. The Ministry of Health compilation of the DPR 309/1990 tables carries «4-HO-MET» as an operative...
- Japan4-HO-MET is listed in Japan as a 指定薬物, a designated substance, under the pharmaceuticals Act, which allows it...
- JordanWhether 4-HO-MET is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitNot a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. 4-HO-MET is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2...
- Latvia4-HO-MET is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- Lithuania4-HO-MET is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 does not name 4-HO-MET on its own. It is reached through the...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. 4-HO-MET is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- Malaysia4-HO-MET is named nowhere in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and nowhere in the Poisons...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs 4-HO-MET is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that...
- Mexico4-HO-MET is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. 4-HO-MET is reached by a reading of Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. 4-HO-MET was searched for across Notification...
- Netherlands4-HO-MET is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. The closely related psilocine is named, and its row...
- New ZealandControlled through the open analogue limb rather than by a schedule name. 4-HO-MET, a hydroxylated...
- NorwayControlled in Norway. 4-HO-MET is named in the narkotikaliste, the list made under section 4 of the Forskrift...
- OmanNot listed in the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree...
- PolandControlled. Poland names this substance in its own national list. «4-HO-MET» is entry lp. 47 in group I-P of...
- PortugalProhibited as a new psychoactive substance. 4-HO-MET is not in tables I to IV of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, but...
- Qatar4-HO-MET is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the three...
- RussiaControlled in Russia through a derivative entry, not by name. The dossier places 4-HO-MET under the Decree...
- Saint LuciaControlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 2. 4-HO-MET is not...
- Serbia4-HO-MET is a controlled substance in Serbia. The dossier behind this cell places it on the Spisak...
- SingaporeClass A controlled drug. Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Part 1 (Class A Drugs), entry...
- Slovakia4-HO-MET is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed...
- SloveniaControlled in Slovenia. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog names 4-HO-MET at Group I,...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: 4-HO-MET is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Third Schedule,...
- SurinameIllegal. 4-HO-MET is on lijst III, which S.B. 2018 no. 64 annexed to the act, through the Tabel III category...
- SwedenControlled. 4-HO-MET is named in Förteckning I of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are...
- SwitzerlandControlled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI carries 4-HO-MET in list e, where the entry reads...
- TaiwanCategory 3 narcotic (第三級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), reached as a bracketed...
- UkraineControlled in Ukraine by its own name as an especially dangerous psychotropic substance whose circulation is...
- United Arab Emirates4-HO-MET is named in the tryptamines block of Schedule 5 of Decision No. 158 of 2025, at item 35, subitem 12....
- United KingdomControlled as a Class A drug through a generic definition. It is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of...
- United StatesNot listed in any federal schedule. Reached, if at all, only through the controlled substance analogue rule...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. 4-HO-MET is not named; the appendix separately names 4-HO-DiPT and psilocin,...
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Not individually verified
For these 150 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that 4-HO-MET specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Aceh (Indonesia)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Romania
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe